Ping Pong the panda is the ping pong champ! Follow the story of Ping Pong and his lucky green bat in this phonics reading book. Part of Reading Stars Phonics - our structured programme of fully decodable phonics readers to support the teaching of phonics using the UK Government's Letters and Sounds programme - Ping Pong Panda is a Phase 4 book. It introduces CVCC and CCVC words and the common exception words said, have, do, one, when, out, what.